Door dashers and Uber eats are the worst in my experience.
Total disregard for any traffic rules, they just straight up park their cars in the middle of a lane outside of the restaurant and leave their cars sitting there while they go inside.
Food delivery gig services are an absolute blight and should be completely illegal imo.
We have an obesity problem and this is making it worse.
It is for me
Meh.
At least they’re using their hazards. Most car brains don’t even bother.
Also I don’t really mind cars blocking traffic if they’re using hazards. It’s usually safer for bikers and pedestrians.
This.
It infuriates me when people just stop on a side road or in a parking lot lane with no indicators.
On a side street (barely two lanes but street parking is allowed) I frequent, people will just slow down and come to a stop without any indicators. I stay behind them and eventually they will roll their window down and wave me by, but they could have just indicated they are pulling off but staying on the road with a blinker…
Just today I was waiting to reverse out of a parking spot and a person just stopped in the lane 10 ft away. I waited for a minute because I wasn’t sure what they were doing. They eventually got out and opened the boot of their vehicle and after another minute of that I eventually reversed and pulled away. They should have put on their hazards from the beginning… Very frustrating.
20 minutes ago I passed an access-a-ride mini bus (Run by the public transit agency) parked in the curb bike lane with it’s blinkers on in front of an apartment building. A building with over 40 units, an open air parking lot, and a lavish back driveway with full entry on the opposite side of the block. It would have been far more convenient for the bus driver, the person being picked up, and every inconvenienced passing cyclist and driver for them to pick up their passenger in the designated passenger pickup area but no, there is a bike lane that isn’t yet being blocked and so that is where the bus must be.
I wanted to cut the bus driver some slack and complain that municipalities don’t do enough to provide loading / unloading curb cuts but I can’t even do that when there’s a huge-ass driveway taking up a third of the property already and they’re not even using it.
Who’s out here taking pictures of my father-in-law?!
Saw this when travelling in Greece for the first time. As a pedestrian I thought it was a funny cultural quirk. I’ve never come across it on Canada’s W. Coast.
It’s quite common in Montréal. People do this even when there’s a parking 3 meters away. Delivery drivers are the worst offender. It fucking pisses my off.
I see this constantly during the week (remote worker) when I walk my dogs. It’ll be Tuesday afternoon with unlimited street parking and everyone on the planet suddenly needs to stop abruptly right in the middle of the fucking road.
I’d celebrate it as impromptu traffic calming if they weren’t in the middle of the bike lane.
My stupid ass city let’s morons park in bike lanes as long as they have that little light flickering there. It’s like a cheat code.
Spit on the car as you roll by. They’ll learn.
I mean, these are ment to imply that you have become a hazard and stopping in the middle of the road do be pretty hazardous.
Legitimate reasons to use it imo is If you’re gonna be stopped for less then a minute on the side of a road, otherwise find a park, if you need to stop and not somewhere you can park, get as far off the road as you can (ie shoulder of a freeway) or if you actually are in an emergency and need to stop, e.g. you’re car is suddenly externally combusting
I’ve only used them when my car needs to be pushed off the road. If your car moves, you should move it.
Some scumbags in my town apparently think that “FIRE ZONE” means “entitled asshole parking” in French.
I thought those were the alert for the parking warden to come and see of you need a ticket for your illegal parking.
I love the people who pull into a normal ass parallel parking spot and put on their flashers.
One, you can just stop or park there. It’s fine.
Two, now it looks to everyone on the road that you’re signaling left to pull into the road because the parked car behind you blocks the view of the right flasher.
I used to see this all the time in the UK outside high street fast food shops. Some idiot would just stop in the middle of the road, chuck their hazards on and piss off into KFC to gorge themselves on chicken for half an hour while traffic banedk up behind their car. British people love a queue though so I guess everyone was winning …
Chicken an a can Coke?
North Americans don’t know what hazard lights are for, it’s not taught in driving schools and no one uses them properly.
actually; that’s the thank you button
It’s not only north Americans, I’ve seen them in EU too
There even is a whole community about exposing people who park without using that button, check out !youcantparktheremate@feddit.uk.
